disservice to women

“Worst of all, it is women who usually have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen and household, work that is unimportant, hard, tiresome, and soul-destroying.”

-Vladimir Lenin (Russian founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917. 1870-1924)

what a horrible, sneakily twisted way of looking at women and the family. i became outrightly indignant at first reading of this quotation. this sentence sums up the thrust of the feminist movement in the last 50 or so years, and highlights in such a clear way what is wrong with modern feminist thinking.

i am sure dear vladimir lenin had great intentions, but if he really wanted to make women feel better about their lives, he need have looked no further than a word of encouragement. to think that taking women out of the primary calling that God has obivously given them–wifehood, motherhood, and home management–putting pants on them and sending them to a factory, would make them feel fulfilled, would restore their destroyed souls, was a grave error in reasoning. what a disservice!

women are amazing. as my old pastor used to say, “traditionally the wife was the one who stayed at home because she had the uterus.” can’t argue with that one. women are the BEST at what they are built and called to do. but that doesn’t mean they don’t need supportive and loving men, and the whole of society, to  come alongside and uphold them. as a reaction to male chauvenism and superiority, i understand those women for getting confused and grumpy, wanting a change, and feeling like breaking out of the degradation, falling for all the lies. but i want to make clear that the dissatisfaction they were feeling was directly from the evil one, and is part of the human condition. it wasn’t something derived from the nature of household work. what could be more valuable and fulfilling than raising up little lives?

valadimir lenin’s ideas were the problem, not the solution.  look at where that line of thinking took lenin’s nation. not exactly a happy, thriving society. you think it a shame that women do household work alone? well help them! they are feeling that their work is unimportant? affirm them, encourage them! sure, the work is hard and tiresome. but most things in life that are worth it ARE hard and tiresome at times. that doesn’t entitle you to just opt out. i find this to be a sad pattern in the liberal line of thinking. it plants a seed in the people that they “deserve more,” they deserve something different. then it’s used to make a huge power grab before they know what hit them. in reality, we don’t deserve anything. and yet we have free forgiveness of sins. that is the message of change he should have been preaching.

can/should women be politicians, truck drivers, business people? sure! they are great at it! they can be pretty much great at everything (except being dads). but the primary calling is to the home, and women should never expect to find fulfillment outside of it if they haven’t found fulfillment within. the true issue here is lack of God, finding joy in him, and submitting to what he has called us to. i myself am tempted to become a politician, or at least a professor! but you can bet that it’s going to be after i raise my family. and should God will that i raise children into my 50′s and 60′s… so be it. i welcome it! i will be a darned old female senator, and i’m cool with that. thank you, God, for counting me worthy for this beautiful, dirty work!